Eduardo R. Muñoz Muñoz, PhD, is part of the Stanford World Language Project at San José State University. His involvement in education started as a teacher in 2002, and he was a coach from 2008-2010, a principal from 2010-2012, and a teacher educator-faculty member since 2014.
Dr. Muñoz Muñoz’s work centers on applied sociolinguistics and educational linguistics, with a strong commitment to advancing equity in multilingual education. He has served as President of CABTE (2022–2024) and was honored with the California Language Teacher’s Association 2023 Outstanding Teacher-Leader Award, as well as the 2020 Dissertation Award from the Second Language Learning Special Interest Group of AERA. His recent publications reflect his leadership in the field, including
- Misma Dirección, Distinto Sentido: Reconceptualizing Problems and Possibilities in Educational Language Learning Equity in Multilingual Schools and Communities: Celebrating the Contributions of Guadalupe Valdés (2024), a chapter co-authored with J. Rosa and R. A. Martínez;
- “Translanguaging is Here to Stay: Retos and Oportunidades for a Linguistically-Sustaining Bilingual (and non-Bilingual) Teacher Education” (2024) in Issues in Teacher Education;
- “Narrowing Down to Find Common Ground: Shared Agreements for Effective Literacy Instruction in California” (2023), co-authored with C. Goldenberg and M. Krivoruchko for Pivot Learning; and
- “Critical Translingual Perspectives on California Multilingual Education Policy” (2023) in Educational Policy, co-authored with L. E. Poza and A. Briceño.
Introduced to CCTE through the connection through CABTE, Dr. Muñoz Muñoz has served CCTE as the CABTE Representative since 2020, CCTE SPAN lead since 2023, and a CCTE Board member since 2025. Believing in the CCTE values, when asked about his to commitment to equity, excellence, and innovation in educator preparation, Dr. Muñoz Muñoz explained:
In my daily work, I center equity through multilingual advocacy that honor students’ linguistic and cultural assets, challenging deficit narratives about multilingual learners. I develop heteroglossic pedagogies that sustain rather than erase identities, mentoring doctoral students and teacher candidates to become critical policy agents. Through CCTE, I serve on the Board and co-chair SPAN, advocating for linguistically-sustaining standards and policies. My scholarship interrogates intersectional linguistic ideologies in teacher preparation, bridging theory and practice in partnerships to reimagine bilingual education. By combining research, policy work, and community engagement—from committee leadership to developing the bilingual teacher pipeline—I cultivate transformative educators who advance educational justice for California’s multilingual communities.
One of his greatest accomplishments in his work with CCTE involved the successful SPAN conference online in Spring of 2025, and new initiatives like the upcoming The Change publication. Then, the promise of the CCTE Fall 2026 Conference on multilingualism!